US Patent Issued to Nikki on July 7 for "Electronically controlled regulator" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,123, issued on July 7, was assigned to Nikki Co. Ltd. (Japan).

"Electronically controlled regulator" was invented by Naoya Suenaga (Kanagawa-ken, Japan), Yukinori Suematsu (Kanagawa-Ken, Japan) and Shutaro Aizawa (Kanagawa-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronically controlled regulator may include a pressure regulating valve. The pressure regulating valve may include a valve shaft, a valve seat, and a discharge pressure regulating unit. The discharge pressure regulating unit may regulate a pressure of a fluid by causing the valve shaft to reciprocate through driving of an electric motor electronically controlled to ch...